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Sculpture, Sexuality and History

Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

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Editors:
  1. Jana Funke

    1. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

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  2. Jen Grove

    1. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

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  • Offers a new understanding of the different ways in which the reception of statuary has been shaped by debates about sexuality and history
  • Explores how sculptures have opened up debates about queer desires and identities, as well as obscenity, censorship and morality
  • Brings together leading international experts and cutting-edge scholars from an extensive range of disciplines

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction—Desiring Sculptures, Encountering the Past: Sculpture, Sexuality and History

    • Jana Funke, Jen Grove
    Pages 1-32

  4. Sculptural Decency: Reception, Censorship and Liberation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodor Storm’s Realist Psyche

      • Catriona MacLeod
      Pages 105-124

    3. A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill as Fetish Object

      • Bernard Vere
      Pages 125-143

    4. Ethics and Erotics: Receptions of an Ancient Statue of a Nymph and Satyr

      • Victoria Donnellan
      Pages 145-167

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 269-280
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About this book

This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the different ways in which knowledge about sexuality is facilitated through an engagement with the past. Bringing together contributors from across disciplines, including art history, classics, film studies, gender studies, history, literary studies, museum studies, queer theory and reception studies, the volume presents original readings of sculptural art in relation to antiquarianism, aesthetics, collecting cultures, censorship and obscenity, psychoanalysis, sexology, and the experience and regulation of museum spaces. It examines how sculptural encounters were imagined and articulated in literature, painting, film and science. As a whole, the book opensup a new understanding of the ways in which sculptures, as real or imagined objects, have fundamentally shaped approaches to and receptions of the past in relation to sex, gender and sexuality.


Chapters 8 and 10 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Jana Funke, Jen Grove

About the editors

Jana Funke is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on modernist literature and the history of sexuality and the history of sexual science. Previous books include The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (2016) and Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (2011, co-edited with Ben Davies). She directs (with Kate Fisher) the Wellcome Trust-funded 'Rethinking Sexology' project (2015-2020).



Jen Grove is an Engaged Research Fellow in the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, UK. She is employed on the Wellcome Trust-funded 'Rethinking Sexology' project (2015-2020). Jen has published several book chapters and articles on the modern collection and reception of ancient objects and the history of sexuality.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sculpture, Sexuality and History

  • Book Subtitle: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

  • Editors: Jana Funke, Jen Grove

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95840-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95839-2Published: 16 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95840-8Published: 04 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 280

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural History, History of Modern Europe, Gender Studies, Modern History, Fine Arts

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